GERMANY Andernach on Rhine River - 1880s Antique Print

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print Specifics: Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - best estimate: 1880s Publisher: Verlag von Karl Neuland, Frankfurt am Main Condition: 1-2 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Slightly uneven ("wavy") along the left blank margin. Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches, (23 x 30 cm) including blank margins (borders) around the images.Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNote: 1. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. From an old description: The Rhine-gate, by which we enter the town from the beach-like shore, (for the fortress walls are set back from the river, and the hank is rude as if it adjoined the sea), is a handsome Roman structure, built in the form of a square, open in the interior, with a round-arched gate at three of the sides, and at the fourth a strangely-built house with galleries round the other sides (like those at our ancient inns); then over the archway farthest from the river there are some stone figures the size of life, the sculpture of which is about as primitive as is the carving of our wooden dolls to this day. The streets of Andernach are all as narrow and dirty as lanes, and as you walk them you meet but two or three people on the way. Nor have the houses much picturesqueness to recommend them to the eye. One was pointed out to us, that the tradition among the towns-people referred to the time of the Romans. This had a double gable-end facing the street, and each of the gables castellated after the fashion of those seen at Cologne and Antwerp, which are generally supposed to have been built by the Spaniards. The principal hotel, winch is a comely-enough inn, in front of a desolate "platz" that looks like a stable-yard, with the empty mail-carts about it, has a large garden attached to the house, with a pleasant arboured terrace and summer-houses ranged along the top of the broad fortress walls of the town, and commanding a fine view of the ancient watch-tower, as well as of the Rhine itself. The Pfarr-kirche, at the other end of the High Street, is very elegant; its two tall, square towers, at the end of the nave, are pierced all the way up with light romanesque arches, while in other parts the arches are in the "ace-of-club," or Byzantine style: the southern entrance to the transept is beautifully sculptured, and the bas-reliefs are curious specimens of middle-age work. One of these represents the Adoration of the Lamb, and another the death of some lady in a painted green dress, amid a crowd of priests and choristers, with archbishop angels looking down upon her from the clouds above. The interior of the edifice has a spacious gallery called the "Mann-haws," where the male part of the congregation formerly sat, the females being placed below. There is a tomb here, too, which is said to be Roman,—that of Valentinian II., who was murdered by one of his officers, A.d. 392. The telescopic watch-tower is not many paces from the parish church, and as you pass it on the road leading to the river-side, you can see a large hole battered half way through the thick walls, and strongly resembling the kind of cavity that mice gnaw in cheese. This is the mark left by the guns of the French when they attacked the town in 1688. The tower is said to have been built in the 15th century, but the tradition of the town is, that the octagonal portion only was then erected upon the roof of the old round tower itself, and that the martello-like base is of Roman origin. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

Price: 28 USD

Location: Manassas, Virginia

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